Post-Medieval Occupation at North Street, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Between the 9th and 30th November 2005, archaeological monitoring was undertaken within the town of Wisbech. The development consisted of directional piling and trenching in order to lay ground beams for the foundations of the New Foyer Building, North Street, Wisbech. The work was undertaken by staff of the Cambridgeshire County Council Archaeological Field Unit and commissioned by Burmor Construction.
Successive phases of marine inundation over the centuries have created deeply stratified deposits, representing an accumulation of occupation layers interspersed with the marine silts, which occur over a wide area of the centre of Wisbech. These period events have created a unique situation for the town with deeply stratified deposits concealing the archaeology consisting of building foundations and occupation layers. These deposits were revealed in some parts of the trenching for the building foundations, exposing a predominantly post-medieval period of silt deposition interspersed with occupation layers, as anticipated.